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in search of striped primeval forms, came across nothing worth 

 photographing. In the ' Forest ' variety still found in western 

 Ross the striping is far more complete than in any horses seen in 

 the West Indies or Mexico" (May 24, 1905). 



Prof. Ewart's results will shortly be published, in Proceedings of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



P. 402. Spanish blood in the Hebrides. Prof. Ewart 

 has supplied me with the following note from Walker's History of the 

 Hebrides, Vol. n. p. 160 (Edinburgh, 1808). Walker, who was 

 Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, had 

 visited the Highlands and Islands six times between 1760 and 1786. 

 The Spanish blood was introduced by Clanranald, who on returning 

 from Spain a short time before he was killed in 1715 at the battle 

 of Sheriffmuir " brought with him some Spanish horses, which he 

 settled in his principal island of South Uist." These in a con- 

 siderable degree altered and improved the horses in that and the 

 adjacent islands. Even in the year 1764 not only the form but 

 the cool, fearless temper of the Spanish horse could be discerned 

 in the horses of that island. These at the time both in figure and 

 disposition were the best horses observed in the Highlands, and 

 though of low stature were judged more valuable than any other 

 horses of the same size. 



As the Spanish horses brought by Clanranald exercised such an 

 important effect on the ponies of the Hebrides and Highlands, and 

 as their descendants are recognized in modern Hebridean ponies 

 of the ' Celtic ' type (lacking hock callosities and having no ergots 

 or very small ones), but which are black in colour, such as that 

 figured on p. 22, and in view of the fact lately ascertained by Prof. 

 Ewart (p. 511) that the horses of Libyan type brought to Southern 

 Mexico by the Spaniards frequently lack hock chestnuts and ergots, 

 we are still further justified in holding (1) that black ponies such as 

 that driven by Cuchulainn, the black Irish Hobbies of medieval 

 times, and the black Connemara ponies of to-day are descended from 

 Libyan blood derived through Spain and Gaul before the Christian 

 era, and (2) that the absence of hock callosities in the ponies of the 

 ' Celtic ' type is certainly due in a large part to the presence of this 

 African blood. 



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